Infact, because pugs tend to have so many health problems, they can no longer be considered a “typical dog from a health perspective,” according to a 2022 study in Canine Medicine and Genetics.
I did not know this is occuring… I’ve known too many smashed faced pugs with serious lifelong health issues…
One of them I knew, skittered around a kitchen floor as a puppy… ran into the kitchen island, and his eyeball popped out of the socket, haning on by the optic nerve.
Its owner managed to get it to a vet and get the eye reinserted… and it seemed to kinda still work… but that pug had so, so many other health issues its whole life…
My aunt had a pug and it couldn’t ever breath correctly. It was always drooling and snorting just to walk around. They always thought it was so adorable and I thought it was a cruel existence to purposely create something can’t fucking breath correctly.
Pugs.
Pugs shouldn’t exist.
Their existance is pain, constant health problems of many kinds.
We have sinned against Dog/God, commited a crime against nature, whatever phrasing your prefer, by molding them into what they are now.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/pet-care/pug-common-health-issues/
Actually the breed standards are changing to push breeders towards healthier dogs!
They are call Retropugs and they tend to be bread with things like Terriers to give them functional skulls and spines!
Oh thank god.
I did not know this is occuring… I’ve known too many smashed faced pugs with serious lifelong health issues…
One of them I knew, skittered around a kitchen floor as a puppy… ran into the kitchen island, and his eyeball popped out of the socket, haning on by the optic nerve.
Its owner managed to get it to a vet and get the eye reinserted… and it seemed to kinda still work… but that pug had so, so many other health issues its whole life…
=C
My aunt had a pug and it couldn’t ever breath correctly. It was always drooling and snorting just to walk around. They always thought it was so adorable and I thought it was a cruel existence to purposely create something can’t fucking breath correctly.
to some people, other’s suffering is “adorable”